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Barnes & Noble cuts price of Nook Glowlight to $99, trying to boost business in struggle against Amazon

Barnes & Noble is dropping the price of its Nook Glowlight e-reader to $99, from the previous $119, breaking the… Read More

Amazon and eBay adjust return policies for the holidays

Amazon and eBay are extending their returns policy this holiday to make shopping earlier more practical. In an updated policy, Amazon says purchased between… Read More

Getting physical: Warby Parker’s storefronts turn a profit

Warby Parker, the New York-based company that sells eyeglasses online starting at $95, says its eight brick-and-mortar stores are now collectively… Read More

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Amazon Fresh grocery delivery expanding in Philadelphia

Amazon Fresh continues its push on the East Coast, with Re/code reporting that the Amazon grocery delivery service plans to… Read More

My first time piloting a drone: A little fear, no crash landings

We’ve been writing a lot about drones, covering everything from small startups to the efforts of Amazon.com. But until Saturday,… Read More

Target adds in-store spin to iPhone app by adding interactive maps for all 1,800 U.S. stores

Target has already taken some pretty extreme measures to beat Amazon this holiday. Last month, it started offering free shipping on… Read More

Alibaba’s CTO to address Seattle crowd as competition with Amazon heats up

Alibaba chief technology officer will be speaking next month in Seattle, the latest public sign of the Chinese e-commerce company’s interest in… Read More

Walmart tells store managers they can match Amazon’s prices

As a part of the ongoing duel for holiday shopping business, Walmart will let its store managers match prices from Amazon and… Read More

In new bid for users, Amazon offers 30-day Kindle and Fire device trials

Amazon customers who are considering a jump onto the Kindle bandwagon can now take one for a spin before they… Read More

Amazon Kindle e-reader software refresh adds Family Library, Free Time Unlimited and Word Wise

Kindle e-reader users have some new software capabilities to play with, thanks to a new update Amazon released today. The… Read More

How Nordstrom is competing on price in the cutthroat world of online retail

When it comes to competing in the retail space, Nordstrom has a tougher time now than it did in the… Read More

Amazon reportedly expanding in Austin with new tech center

Amazon.com is hiring like mad in Seattle, with word earlier this week that the fast-growing tech giant plans to continue… Read More

Handling events in the cloud? Amazon’s new Lambda service looks to make it easy

As it becomes possible for applications to take in even more massive amounts of data, there’s a growing need for… Read More

AWS teams with Intel to create its highest-performance cloud compute instance ever

Amazon announced today that it has teamed with Intel to create a new class of Elastic Compute Cloud instances built… Read More

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IMS Health turns to Amazon for hosting its cloud-based applications

IMS Health has turned to Amazon to host all of its software-as-a-service applications, in a move that should help the… Read More

Amazon launches EC2 Container Service to help developers manage Dockerized apps

Developers working with containerized apps on Amazon Web Services have a new tool to help them manage their workloads. Today,… Read More

Jeff Bezos

Amazon and Hachette settle dispute with multi-year e-book agreement

The intense battle between Hachette Book Group and Amazon is over. After trading barbs for the past six months over… Read More

Protesting outside Amazon HQ, former employee asks current employees to stop working so hard

One week after launching his one-man protest at Amazon headquarters in Seattle, former Amazon employee Kivin Varghese is still at it, trying… Read More

Congress may block an online sales tax measure that received Amazon’s blessing

A bill supporting the collection of online sales tax may finally be dead after bouncing around the halls of Congress for… Read More

Amazon takes aim at Microsoft’s SQL Server with Aurora database service

In its continuing quest for cloud dominance, Amazon has taken aim at the major players in the relational database space… Read More

Amazon turns to UK for flight testing of its drones

While it continues to work towards getting its drones off the ground in the U.S., Amazon is taking a jump… Read More

Amazon’s TenMarks unveils new service to get math teachers up to speed

TenMarks Education, the education technology company acquired by Amazon last year, is expanding beyond its flagship TenMarks Math interactive math… Read More

Amazon opens up Cloud Drive to third-party developers

As the online storage wars heat up, Amazon said today it was opening up Cloud Drive to third-party developers as a… Read More

Amazon is taking over Seattle: New plans call for up to 3 more buildings

Amazon’s building boom isn’t stopping. Architects for the e-commerce giant have filed plans with the city to build up to three… Read More

Amazon will have to share Sunday delivery with competitors this holiday

The Postal Service will start delivering packages for all retailers on Sundays starting Nov. 17, exactly a year after it announced a… Read More

Braveheart, Blade Runner directors highlight Amazon’s 7 new pilot TV shows

Amazon this morning revealed a new lineup of TV pilots that will debut in early 2015. Among them include an… Read More

A new Singles Day record for Alibaba: $9.3B in sales over 24 hours

This may go down as the biggest shopping event in the history of the world. Over the past 23 hours and 13… Read More

‘Singles Day’ is huge: Alibaba on pace to top Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales in one day

In the U.S., Black Friday and Cyber Monday are held up as two prime examples of America’s wealth. Online sales between… Read More

Amazon Echo parody: ‘I’m a talking cylinder and my existence is utterly meaningless’

It’s been 24 hours since Amazon revealed Echo and the Internet has already come up with some pretty hilarious videos that parody the… Read More

LivingSocial sheds employees as it works to renegotiate deal with Amazon

LivingSocial has cut a fifth of its workforce in a restructuring under new CEO Gautam Thakar. The company laid off… Read More

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